Comments on: Firefox Text Formatting Toolbar with HTML, BBCode, Wiki Code support!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:18:55 +0000

I tried to download not avail in 3.9.2 why????

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:27:34 +0000

Hi – I tried down loading BB code for FF and it wont load .. when I right click I don’t see the bb code application on the drop down menu …. any one no why .. this was over the last few weeks also …….. any answers please send …

By: Rahul Bansal

Rahul Bansal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:32:02 +0000

@Johu
So I guess we almost finalize enhancement.
Now first we should contact plugin author for modifications, if we fails to respond or do not have time we can do it ourselves.

By: johu

johu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:25:50 +0000

With ‘Two more things?’ I meant that I told before about same things… more or less

By: johu

johu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:21:52 +0000

Two more things?
Yes, I could use the first thing. But thing is, that there is not much more syntax highlighting needed than tag matching as I tried to describe before. Syntax of BB code is way too easy to call it syntax highlighting.

About your second suggestion: as you can’t make it auto detect all kinds of forums and pages where you can use BB-Code inside a textarea. I think that rightclicking on textarea is best option to configure the plugin for particular textarea (among other things choose between BB-Code, Wiki and HTML which also would be useful). This would also avoid this plugin to mess with textareas which are not meant for format language input.

By: Rahul Bansal

Rahul Bansal — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:03:03 +0000

@johu
I guess you need two more features in this plugin…
1. Syntax highlighting to minimize errors
2. And plugin should automatically detect which coding format to use. Means if its a php forum then textarea should automatically get associated with bbCode format.

Let me know if I am right. If so, then I guess this plugin itself can be enhanced to do both things…

By: johu

johu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:29:24 +0000

As you know, in every forum there is different CSS so that for would look nice. As I am administrator in several I’d like a tool, which would highlight BB-Code and do something like bracket matching so it would be easier to fallow syntax mistakes. I has to be customizable, so that i could choose colors, what would suit with colors with text area.

I think, it would be convenient if it did nothing by default. If you are in forum and see a textarea, you can rightclick on it and choose ‘code highlight preferences’ or something like that. And next time you visit the same page it already uses same settings u used before.

About coloring system… all code tag’s should be colored different from background and from text and from each other. They should be painted by pairs so that ‘quote’ and ‘/quote’ tags would be in same color but ‘quote’ and ‘quote’ wouldn’t. This way you can match them with ease.

In conclusion i am thinking about something like bracket matching in Exel where ( and ) are painted by pairs. In bb code and html opening and closing tag should be colored (not ” or ‘[]‘ but hole tag ‘[code]')

By: Rahul Bansal

Rahul Bansal — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:49:38 +0000

@Johu
Can you please give more details or few example about what you are looking for…
I will try to find out an extension for you then.

By: johu

johu — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:57:17 +0000

Nice tool!

I’d like to see code customizable code highlight tool so I could configure some colors for textarea of forms I visit most often.